Actor Quote by Jack Nicholson

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

— Jordi Molla

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what…

— Gillian Jacobs

I'm the type of actor that believes the director has to be in charge. I've been on sets where the actor's ego was the…

— Miles Teller

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

— Malcolm McDowell

The key is you don't want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don't want to be too free flowing in uncontrolled…

— Greig Fraser

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if…

— Rishi Kapoor

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a…

— Jason Bateman

I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the…

— Hilary Swank

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come…

— Maya Hawke

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain…

— Seth Rogen

I certainly would never overstep my bounds and make suggestions to a director. As an actor I'm trying to fit to the best of…

— Nicolas Cage

I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't…

— Gordon Willis